EGYPTIAN COURT TO RULE MONDAY ON DISSOLVING IKHWAN SOCIETY

Cairo, 17 Dzulqa’idah 1434/22 September 2013 (MINA) – An Egyptian court has set Monday as a date for ruling on the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood Society.

A lawyer has filed a lawsuit demanding the society be dissolved on the ground that it has been established “in violation of law”, Anadolu Agency quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Sunday.

He also demanded the seizure of the society’s funds and headquarters.

The Muslim Brotherhood Society was registered as an NGO in March, with former Brotherhood supreme leader Mahdi Akef as chairman. Akef is currently in jail on charges of “inciting violence.”

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The society’s administration does not include all the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood or its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).

Egypt’s State Commissioners Authority, a judicial body tasked with ruling on administrative issues, has recommended the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood Society and the closure of its Cairo headquarters.

The authority has also called for a court ruling revoking the March 13 registration of the Muslim Brotherhood Society.

Recommendations issued by the State Commissioners Authority are not binding, although Egyptian courts in recent years have consistently adopted them.

Hundreds of leading Brotherhood and FJP figures have been detained on different allegations, mostly of “inciting violence,” since Egypt’s powerful military ousted elected president Mohamed Morsi on July 3.

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Brotherhood students call for nationwide civil disobedience

Meanwhile, the students are Muslim Brotherhood supporters have started to enter the campus, preparing action “nationwide civil disobedience” on Sunday.

“We have already started our activities inside universities by welcoming new students,” spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood students, Sohayb Abdel-Maqsood told. “We prepare for a strong start in tandem with calls for a nationwide civil disobedience.”

“We seek to make the universities a new thorn in the back of the military coup,” Abdel-Maqsood said.

Abdel Maqsood said students in each university will agree on the appropriate measures to express their opposition to what he described as the “bloody military coup” against Morsi, which, according to him, ushered in a setback to the January 25 revolution. (T/P09/E1).

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Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).